professed and was dumped

Profession of Love. I prefer to call it a brave and selfless act and never silly, no matter how bad the outcome may be. It takes a lot of courage to come up to a person and lay bare your sentiments without actually knowing how that person might take it. Professing one’s love means losing control over one’s self because when you confess, you give that person you love the power to either screw you or make you whole, to shatter your dreams or make them real. You might think that what I am saying here’s FOOLISH; well, that’s your call. Still, I believe that losing one’s self to someone isn’t utterly idiotic but rather, a proof of trust, a testimony to the person’s unassuming nature and an affirmation of one’s knack to triumph over fear and cowardice because no one ever said that entrusting yourself to another is trouble-free. You see, not everybody has the backbone to throw himself/herself into the unknown and daringly wait for and uncomplainingly put up with his doom. Moreover, profession of love requires not assurance. Neither does it assume reciprocation. It is nothing but simple honesty. If it may be hopeful of something, that would only be acknowledgement, recognition or at the most, appreciation.

 

Dumping. Most people may well think that dumping someone is pretty easy. Mind you, it’s not. Those who claim that they have dumped several people without difficulty are full-blown JERKS. Remember that it has always been stress-free to deliver good news but never to come out with a bad one, right? Who says it is easy to turn down the chance to be with someone who is passionate about you or to let go of the opportunity to have somebody who thinks highly of you and all else about you? Dumping someone is a conscious effort of giving up the perks of being loved. It is a gutsy act of breaking one’s heart with good intentions. It aims to save, not destroy the life of a soul by pretending to be in love when it’s only pity. It rejects the possibility of manipulation - taking advantage of those who are so-called “blinded” by love.

 

***Cheers to those who have bravely professed their love. Cheers to those who have dumped people to save them.

 

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Take courage to profess your love. Never fear pain. Remove rejection from your vocabulary and replace it with redemption so you won’t have to see getting dumped as a source of misery but rather, it will be a source of relief or the liberation from unnecessary hopefulness and anxiety.